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20th Philadelphia Film Festival – The Descendants
The Closing night film, featured George Clooney in The Descendants. Basically, it’s hard not to like this film set in Hawaii, although, I don’t feel it’s as good as writer/director Alexander Payne’s film Sideways. Still, I was very impressed with the balancing act of threading laugh out loud humor into really tough situations. The timing of which, is nothing short of brilliant. Here’s what other reviewers are saying about the film: With The Descendants, Payne has once again found an eccentric realm for us to explore, though with less caustic wit, presenting a Hawaii set tale of another off-kilter character…Our preconceptions about Hawaii as a paradise are arrested in George…
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20th Philadelphia Film Festival – Race to the Bottom of the Earth
Surprisingly compelling considering it's basically one man talking into a video camera about frost bite, broken camping stoves, broken skies, whiteout conditions, and calling his wife each night with sometimes incoherent reports of the day.
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20th Annual Philadelphia Film Festival Coverage 2011 Part 3 of 3
Wikipedia: Colin Clark (9 October 1932 – 17 December 2002) was a British writer and filmmaker who specialized in films for cinema and television about the arts. He was the son of the art historian Lord Clark of Saltwood (Sir Kenneth Clark), and the younger brother of the Conservative politician and military historian Alan Clark, with whom he was not always on good terms.[1]Born in London, he was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. From 1951 to 1953 he did National Service as a pilot officer in the Royal Air Force.[2] Colin Clark’s first job on leaving university was as an assistant director on the film The Prince…
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20 Philly Film Fest -Jonathan Demme – I Am Carolyn Parker
Intellectually, I know the beauty of a film festival is to see small films, those without distribution yet, documentaries and foreign films. I always have good intentions of puttting these things in my schedule, but for me, it’s kinda like doing laundry – I love fashion and I want to wear clean clothes, but I don’t feel like sorting the wash and going to the basement. Seeing all the bigger, glitzy, star studded films, that yes, will be released in a couple of months, but I get to see them before the average movie-goer, is my favorite part of a film festival; this I compare to going shopping! So…